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  • Voxopop: Known before as Chinswing, it is a global message board where anyone can add voice messages to ongoing topical discussions. Share your personal interests or hobbies, debate hot issues or find answers to questions. We've combined features of podcasting, text forums and live voice chat to create a whole new way to talk.Video: How to use Chinswing

  • ESL Discussions: English Conversation Questions and speaking activities. There are currently 644 discussion topics to choose from:
    * Use for ESL lessons, speaking practice, debate clubs, lesson add-ons, and more.
    * Students can form discussion groups for independent speaking practice.
    * The speaking activities are on everyday themes and more controversial issues.
    * Each conversation lesson has ready-to-print Word and PDF downloads.
    * There are 12,880 conversation questions here - That's a lot of discussion!
    * 1,000 more lesson activities (Sean Banville's book)

  • ESL HQ: ESL HQ provides free ESL flashcards, flash cards, worksheets, games, activities, lesson plans and more!

  • Conversation Questions: This site provide us with a great variety of conversation questions worksheets ordered alphabetically by different topics.

  • Debates and discussions: The website is divided in three blocks:
    1. Speaking activities for debates, discussions and giving opinion2.Personalized opinion giving exercises 3. Lessons & activities for teaching discussions

  • SPELLINGCITY: It is an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun. SpellingCity.com has over 37,000 spelling words and eight spelling games; a real person who says each word and sentence; thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own!; and a free forum and newsletter with more resources!

  • Speaking Activities: A series of speaking activities in pdf format. You can adapt them to fit the needs of your classroom and students.

  • IELTS Speaking Part Two: It offers tasks arranged A – Z by topic, key word or grammar point so that you can quickly find a suitable one to fit in with the topic of your class or the interests of your students.


  • The Language Project: The pages in this section each give you ten new (more fun) ways of saying things like greetings, news or for describing parts of our lives like work or sleeping. Learn English and practise vocabulary, grammar and phrases with over 50 pages of free interactive exercises.There are three levels and an extra page for typical mistakes.


  • ESLgold: Interesting material to improve speaking.

  • Let's Talk: If you have extra time at the end of a lesson, or if you are looking for an alternate activity to do in class, these games and exercises are perfect for you. They require minimal time to prepare: all you need to do is read the instructions and, if there are any activity sheets, download them and make enough photocopies for your students.

  • Speaking Robots: This ESL Robots Project creates online electronic tutors to help English language learners practice speaking English. To use the site, study the conversations first by reading and listening to them several times, and then try practicing these conversations with the robot.

  • Spokenskills: Spoken English web tools for language teachers and ESL schools.

  • ESLfast: We can practice English with intelligent robots and chat with them. There are links to different conversation practice which can be heard. Interesting to work in pairs.